Basic Guacamole Recipe

 

This basic guacamole recipe is packed with flavor from garlic salt, cumin and lemon juice.  Despite the fact it has no onion, no tomatoes and no cilantro it’s the best guac recipe because everything you need you most likely have on hand.

A super basic Guacamole Recipe!!  Do you love it? Made from the egg shaped fruit of an avocado, it’s not only deliciously full of healthy monounsaturated fat (woo!), but very simple to prepare! What’s more, if you buy avocados on sale at your local grocer, you can make a batch of hearty guacamole for just a few dollars. Scoop it up with some of your favorite tortilla chips and you’ve got a great snack or accompaniment to Mexican night!

My  husband and I have been making guacamole for years and love how easily adaptable it can be. Today, I’m going to show you our most basic recipe, requiring only four ingredients.

What can you add to guacamole?

• cilantro
• jalapenos
• chopped tomatoes
• onion

But honestly, this recipe is packed with flavor just the way it is!  You’ll need three avocados, one lemon, some ground cumin and garlic salt. That’s it!

How To Know If An Avocado Is Ripe

You can determine this by pressing your finger into the shell. If it’s hard to indent, the avocado is not ready. Keep it out of the fridge to ripen. If your finger does indent the shell, you’ve got yourself a ripe avocado. Another indicator is color. A ripe avocado will typically be more brown in color; an unripe, more green.

How To Cut An Avocado for Guac Recipe

The best way to pull the fruit out of an avocado is to take a paring knife and cut through the avocado vertically from the top down. Then twist until it opens. Only one side will be holding the pit.

How To Make Basic Guacamole

Step 1: Remove and discard all the pits from the avocado except for one (set it aside) and with a spoon, scoop the fruit out into a bowl.

Step 2: Next, squeeze out the juice of a lemon half until you have 1 tablespoon. We used to make guacamole with only limes, but found that lemon works just as well and I’m more likely to have a lemon on hand – keeping it simple, my friends!

Step 3: Now, to the fruit, add your lemon juice, ground cumin and garlic salt. If you don’t have garlic salt, you can sub 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder.

Step 4: Get out your handy potato masher or just a fork and mash all the ingredients together.

As long as your avocados are ripe, 15 seconds of mashing will create a smooth, but still chunky guacamole. The more you mash, the smoother it will be.

Step 5: Remember that pit I had you set aside? If you aren’t going to eat the guacamole right away, setting the pit inside will help prevent browning, a natural reaction when the fruit is exposed to air. Adhering the top of the guacamole with plastic wrap will also help.

So there you have it! However basic this guacamole recipe is I think you’ll find that it’s delicious!  One taste and you may never buy it again.

Enjoy!

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